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as mentioned in Ireland remain in the top four of the World Rugby rankings despite falling to a shock defeat to Scotland at Murrayfield at the weekend. However Joe Schmidt’s side dropped a full ranking point and now only hold a narrow advantage over 5th place Wales. New Zealand are still top and by quite some margin with England, who are currently on a 15 match winning streak, in second. Wales, South Africa, Scotland and France make up the positions from five to eight. Australia strengthened their grip on third spot due to Ireland’s loss.

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Pulling power of repeated World Cup and Super Rugby success convince Ben Smith to stay

Pulling power of repeated World Cup and Super Rugby success convince Ben Smith to stayOther Ben Smith tells All Blacks fans why he’s picking Speight’s over Champagne and staying in NZ. “To have the most consistent player in world rugby re-signing is great news for New Zealand rugby and a real credit to our game. GETTY IMAGES Ben Smith has resisted the temptation to head to French club Pau and play alongside Conrad Smith at the end of this season. GETTY IMAGES Ben Smith has re-signed with New Zealand Rugby through to 2020. Ben Smith considered the recent past when pondering his foreseeable future.

As it stated in Pulling power of repeated World Cup and Super Rugby success convince Ben Smith to stayOther Ben Smith tells All Blacks fans why he’s picking Speight’s over Champagne and staying in NZ. “To have the most consistent player in world rugby re-signing is great news for New Zealand rugby and a real credit to our game. GETTY IMAGES Ben Smith has resisted the temptation to head to French club Pau and play alongside Conrad Smith at the end of this season. GETTY IMAGES Ben Smith has re-signed with New Zealand Rugby through to 2020. Ben Smith considered the recent past when pondering his foreseeable future.